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Vernacular Palaver
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the 'local' for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication. more...
Linguistic Consequences of the EU-Enlargement
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 109.00This yearbook deals with language problems in Europe, especially with the conditions and consequences of Europes economic and political integration. Each volume is dedicated to a particular topic, but contains also book reviews, reports on the sociolinguistic research in individual countries, and a comprehensive bibliography on new sociolinguistic... more...
Dialect Change
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 50.00This book brings together a team of leading scholars to explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect convergence and divergence. Each specially-commissioned chapter is based on original research, giving an overview of current work on that particular area and presenting case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. more...
The Languages and Linguistics of Europe
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 363.00The Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guideis part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European,... more...
Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 173.00The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the research program of the Principle and Parameters approach and an enforced interest in exploring the parametrical space of human language. The contributions to the present volume combine theoretical... more...
Toward a Typology of European Languages
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 196.00Toward a Typology of European Languages Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] more...
Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 335.00The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic... more...
Clitic Phenomena in European Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 180.00This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a recent generative framework, its contrastive approach discusses these issues against the background of a number of European languages, among which the Balkan Slavic languages figure prominently.... more...
Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asian Languages
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 165.00This volume owes its genesis to a series of lectures on various aspects of the historical phonology of Asian languages, sponsored by the Asian Linguistics Colloquium of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The volume includes papers on both theoretical and applied aspects of Asian linguistics,... more...
Language in the British Isles
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 42.00Provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles. more...









